210 Tang Reef

[mphammer]

First couple fish in the hospital tank
This is my first time treating with copper and medicating so hope nothing goes wrong. 20 gallons seems like such a small volume of water where things could go south quickly..

 

[snarky shark]

Beautiful fish! What is it?

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[mphammer]

Beautiful fish! What is it?

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Male and Female Lyretail Anthias

 

[DiefsReef]

Finally tackled the mess of wires coming from the tank and got my hospital tank all set up.
I am completely out of space over here so I had to get creative. Turned into a fun project!

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Looks Great. I love the slider!

 

[DiefsReef]

They are beautiful. Look tiny

First couple fish in the hospital tank
This is my first time treating with copper and medicating so hope nothing goes wrong. 20 gallons seems like such a small volume of water where things could go south quickly..

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They are beautiful. Look tiny

 

[mphammer]

They are beautiful. Look tiny

They are beautiful. Look tiny

The female especially! She is one the smaller Ive seen
The male is about 4x her size!

 

[jones375]

Beautiful fish. Can't wait to see them in the DT.

 

[mphammer]

A lot of stocking action recently.. including those Anthias making their way to the DT

 

[mphammer]

Finally starting to see some growth and colors popping on the coral and frags

 

[YoungReefer10g]

just binged this thread lol . Super cool build @mphammer cant wait for it to get some more tangs

 

[mphammer]

And this guy manages to bomb half of my pics lmao

 

[YoungReefer10g]

A lot of stocking action recently.. including those Anthias making their way to the DT

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gosh that goni shines sooo bright

 

[mphammer]

just binged this thread lol . Super cool build @mphammer cant wait for it to get some more tangs

Thank you!

Stay tuned...purple and achiles on the near future stocking list

 

[mphammer]

 

[mphammer]

 

[mphammer]

Thank you @ActiveAngel
This is his DIY rock that I won via an auction back in October
Larger pieces with great shape and I think it helped bring some depth to the scape! Thanks again Andrew

 

[civics14]

Thank you!

Stay tuned...purple and achiles on the near future stocking list

Did you ever get an achilles? I have one going through copper right now for the past 10 days. I know they are ich prone, so I ramped up copper the moment he went into QT and I'm so glad I did because rather than ich, he had velvet. Luckily by the 4th day when it started to show, the copper started to kick in and he pushed through it. Next was getting him to eat and I had to get brine shrimp eggs to hatch to trigger his appetite. Now he's eating and recovering nicely.

Highly recommend to start the copper treatment off the bat when you get one.

 

[mphammer]

Did you ever get an achilles? I have one going through copper right now for the past 10 days. I know they are ich prone, so I ramped up copper the moment he went into QT and I'm so glad I did because rather than ich, he had velvet. Luckily by the 4th day when it started to show, the copper started to kick in and he pushed through it. Next was getting him to eat and I had to get brine shrimp eggs to hatch to trigger his appetite. Now he's eating and recovering nicely.

Highly recommend to start the copper treatment off the bat when you get one.

I chickened out. Simon had a couple last week and I went with the intention of purchasing but ended up with a XL Blonde Naso
I just do not have enough QT experience.
To be honest, I have been playing with a risky idea that was sparked by the following thread...

The Other Way to Run a Reef Tank (no Quarantine)

The other way to run a reef tank (No Quarantine) I was asked by my friend Humblefish to start a thread on my practices of running a tank with no quarantine, hospital tanks, medications, dipping or almost anything else. It is "not" just to take a fish from a store and drop it in your reef...

www.reef2reef.com

A lot of good points throughout that massive thread.

btw glad you were able to nip that velvet in the butt. I know there was plenty of stress and work involved in that, you'll have a gorgeous fish to show for it!

 

[lmm1967]

And this guy manages to bomb half of my pics lmao

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Until you NEED a good pic to see some detail on him.

 

[terrapin2]

The all important flex-seal. White this time, thanks @aestheticlibra

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I know its an old thread but never thought of doing something like this
smart smart